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Guest Prudie Nadira Goffe joined by Sasheer Zamata, actress and comedian.

The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer explains why conservatives are turning more private matters into crimes—and are leaning on fellow citizens to do...

Will she win their votes?

The sexy, funny, wise Anora deserves to make at least two new household names.

My sister won’t do anything about the bitter bullying.

Her lewdness is destroying the neighborhood!

Bret Baier’s attacks said a lot more about Trump than Harris.

The chances of ending this yearlong war could be as great as they ever have been.

Plus: volume wars, dyed hair, and a fail at following through.

Ted Cruz’s challenger is polling similarly—but he’s not a national sensation.

What’s happening is simply bonkers.

We aren't even struggling!

The Marshall Project's survey of 54,000 people behind bars shows strong support for Trump.

To understand how incarcerated people are thinking about the two candidates, the Marshall Project posed three questions.

It’s a bit of a tactical bind.

The “Obama coalition” isn’t coming out for Kamala Harris. Who is?

Online voter registration in Nebraska ends in two days; in-person registration ends in nine.

The Supreme Court is sliding even further backward on capital punishment.

The work of three Nobel Prize–winning economists serves as an urgent warning for us about November.

An all-timer from this guy.

I honestly can’t wait for the sun to calm down.

Whatever the law on vote buying should be, the federal vote buying prohibition is clear enough.

Uber and Lyft want to pit struggling workers against customers with disabilities. But the corporations are the problem.

The FTC is finally doing something about those pesky call-to-cancel policies.